Fence



(No Model.) l

G. H. Ives'.

FENCE.v

Patented July 28, 1885.

Imfenor.

NITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE IVES, OF MARTIN, MICHIGAN.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,939, dated July 28,1885.

Application tiled April 16, 1885. l (No model.) v

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, GEORGE II. IvEs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Martin, county of Allegan, State of Michigan, have in'-vented a new and useful Portable Fence, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has for its object certain inlprovements hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figurel is an end elevation ofthe fence-panel, showing the fencesupport;Fig. 2, a view of the panel broken away, looking from a point at therightot Fig. l; Fig. 3, a like view looking from the left of Fig. l,with one panel removed, showing the binding-wire. Figs. 4, 5, 6 aredetails of part-s in enlarged perspective, referred to by like letters.

Referring to the drawings and the letters marked thereon, B is thebase-board of the end support, provided with notches on the under side,near the ends, to fit over buried stones, to keep the fence above theground and hold it against lateral displacement.

D D are center uprights having beveled notches at the lower end to t inthe gains c of the base B, Figs. 2, 3, 6. To the uprights D the boards aa and wiref are secured, one upright being on each end of the lappedpanels. These uprights are provided with apertures about centrally fromthe top and bottom, which register with each other, and in which aredetachably placed the binding-cap o and wedges s s. Inclined braces P Pare bolted to the base B at their lower ends, Figs.

l and 2, and rest against the uprights D at the upper end. Thebinding-cap o tits over the upper ends of the braces P P and into thegains or mortises a', Fig. 4, of said ends. A binding-wire, c, is passedover the bindingcap o and secured to the base B, Figs. 5, 6, the

wire being between the lapped panels, Figs. l and 3.

Under the binding-wire c, and above the binding-cap o, the wedges s sare inserted and driven together until a tight stra-in is brought tobear on the binding-wire c. Thus the panels, base, braces, andbinding-cap are tirxnly and detachably held together by simple and cheapmeans.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- A fenceconsisting of the panels having the uprights at the lapped ends, saiduprights provided with the registering-apertures, the base having thecenter gains to detachably receive the lower ends ofthe uprights, theside braces, the binding cap and Wedges, and the bindingwire secured tothe base and passing between the lapped ends of the panels and over thebinding cap and wedges, the whole constructed and arranged substantiallyas set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have herei unto subscribed my name inpresence of two witnesses.

GEORGE H. IVES.

W'itnesses:

JOHN H. CHASE, JAMES L. HAWLEY.

